Common hepatic artery

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In anatomy, the common hepatic artery is a short blood vessel that supplies oxygenated blood to the liver, pylorus (a part of the stomach), duodenum (a part of the small intestine) and pancreas.

It arises from the celiac artery and has the following branches:

Branch	Details
hepatic artery proper	supplies gallbladder via the cystic artery and the liver via the left and right hepatic arteries
right gastric artery	supplies stomach, joining with left gastric artery
gastroduodenal artery	branches into right gastro-omental artery and superior pancreaticoduodenal artery

[edit] Additional images

The celiac artery and its branches; the stomach has been raised and the peritoneum removed.

The portal vein and its tributaries.

Abdominal portion of the sympathetic trunk, with the celiac and hypogastric plexuses.

Horizontal disposition of the peritoneum in the upper part of the abdomen.

[edit] See also

• hepatic artery

[edit] External link

• Diagram at missouristate.edu
• Dictionary at eMedicine Common+hepatic+artery
• SUNY Labs 38:03-0204 - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: Contents of the Hepatoduodenal ligament"
• Norman/Georgetown celiactrunk

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pulmonary - aorta - ascending aorta right coronary (sinuatrial nodal, atrioventricular nodal, atrial, right marginal, posterior interventricular) left coronary (anterior interventricular, left circumflex, left marginal) aortic arch - brachiocephalic - thyreoidea ima - common carotid SUBCLAVIAN: internal thoracic: musculophrenic - anterior intercostal - pericardiacophrenic - superior epigastric costocervical trunk: highest intercostal, deep cervical DESCENDING AORTA / THORACIC AORTA: bronchial - esophageal - posterior intercostal - subcostal ABDOMINAL AORTA: Anterior - celiac: left gastric splenic: pancreatic branches (arteria pancreatica magna) - short gastric - left gastro-omental common hepatic: proper hepatic (cystic), right gastric, gastroduodenal (right gastro-omental, superior pancreaticoduodenal) superior mesenteric: inferior pancreaticoduodenal - intestinal - ileocolic (appendicular) - right colic - middle colic inferior mesenteric: left colic - sigmoid - superior rectal Posterior - Visceral: middle suprarenal - renal (inferior suprarenal) - testicular/ovarian - Parietal: inferior phrenic (superior suprarenal) - lumbar - median sacral Terminal branches: common iliac - marginal - internal iliac INTERNAL ILIAC: Anterior: umbilical (superior vesical, to ductus deferens) - inferior vesical - middle rectal - uterine (azygos of the vagina) - vaginal - obturator (anterior branch, posterior branch) internal pudendal: (inferior rectal, perineal, artery of the urethral bulb, urethral, deep artery of the penis, dorsal artery of the penis) inferior gluteal (accompanying of ischiadic nerve, crucial anastomosis) Posterior: iliolumbar - lateral sacral - superior gluteal EXTERNAL ILIAC: inferior epigastric (cremasteric) - deep circumflex iliac